InterimXpert partners with senior leaders at pivotal moments of organizational change, providing guidance across transformational initiatives such as M&A, GBS and GCC build-outs in best-cost countries, manufacturing footprint optimization, organization design assessments, and HR operating model development.
With extensive experience in ind
InterimXpert partners with senior leaders at pivotal moments of organizational change, providing guidance across transformational initiatives such as M&A, GBS and GCC build-outs in best-cost countries, manufacturing footprint optimization, organization design assessments, and HR operating model development.
With extensive experience in industrial technology, engineering, and advanced manufacturing, I bring both strategic insight and practical problem-solving expertise. By combining a deep understanding of business challenges with a hands-on, design-thinking approach, I help leaders navigate complexity, make informed decisions, and deliver measurable organizational impact.
Every transformation is unique, shaped by its culture, challenges, and context. InterimXpert provides a flexible, context-driven approach. By deeply understanding your organization’s dynamics, priorities, and culture, I help leaders navigate complex decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and strengthen organizational impact.
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Every transformation is unique, shaped by its culture, challenges, and context. InterimXpert provides a flexible, context-driven approach. By deeply understanding your organization’s dynamics, priorities, and culture, I help leaders navigate complex decisions, evaluate trade-offs, and strengthen organizational impact.
The focus is on building internal capability rather than creating dependency. Through coaching, mentoring, and advisory support, organizations are empowered to sustain change and execute with confidence. Flexible engagement models—including fractional partnerships, project-based advisory, structured programs, or ad-hoc consultation—ensure access to senior expertise on-demand, tailored to the scale and scope of each challenge.
InterimXpert leverages a curated network of trusted specialists when client needs require expanded expertise or additional capacity. These experts bring deep knowledge in organizational design, change management, culture transformation, HR technology, and shared services, and are engaged selectively to complement core advisory work.
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InterimXpert leverages a curated network of trusted specialists when client needs require expanded expertise or additional capacity. These experts bring deep knowledge in organizational design, change management, culture transformation, HR technology, and shared services, and are engaged selectively to complement core advisory work.
This approach ensures that every solution is both strategic and actionable. By combining specialized expertise with hands-on guidance, organizations benefit from a broad spectrum of insight while maintaining clarity, alignment, and accountability throughout complex transformations.
With hands-on experience leading multiple M&A transactions and divestitures during a corporate career, InterimXpert advises leadership teams on the people, organization, and culture dimensions critical to deal success. Support includes assessing risks early, shaping a clear integration or separation philosophy, and guiding decisions on leadership, talent, and organizational structure throughout the deal journey.
This approach focuses on protecting value, maintaining stability, and enabling the realization of strategic synergies. Advisory support includes practical HR integration planning and a pragmatic HR M&A Playbook, equipping PMI teams with clear guidance to execute with speed, clarity, and consistency—while operating alongside the client team rather than taking over implementation.
With over a decade of experience building and scaling multi-functional GBS and GCC organizations across India, Southeast Asia, Central Europe, and Latin America, InterimXpert advises leadership teams on establishing shared services that deliver sustainable value—not just cost efficiency. The focus is on designing operating models that balance capability, scalability, and business alignment from the outset.
Advisory support spans organization design, global process ownership models, retained-versus-outsourced scope, governance frameworks, and talent and culture transitions. Working closely with internal transformation teams and external consulting partners, I help leaders make informed design choices, clarify roles and accountabilities, and embed governance structures that enable long-term effectiveness while managing stakeholder and workforce implications across geographies.
InterimXpert provides bespoke advisory support to help leadership teams design future-state organizations that are aligned with business strategy and fit for increasing complexity. The focus is on re-examining how work is organized, how decisions are made, and how capabilities are deployed—ensuring the organization is effective today while remaining resilient for what lies ahead.
Where appropriate, I conduct a holistic organization design assessment using the STAR framework, working closely with leadership and project teams to establish clear first principles for the future organization. This includes analysis of workforce and structural data, spans and layers, decision rights, governance and delegation of authority, and cultural enablers. The outcome is a clear future-state operating model, supported by a pragmatic transition and workforce plan that balances strategic intent with execution feasibility.
InterimXpert offers a 6-month, business-anchored coaching program designed to help experienced HR Business Partners strengthen their impact with senior leaders. The program focuses on moving HRBPs from trusted people advisors to influential business partners—building executive presence, sound business judgment, and the ability to influence high-stakes decisions in complex, matrixed environments.
This is a highly individualized development journey grounded in real business challenges, not classroom training or generic coaching. Participants apply their learning to live initiatives that matter to the organization, strengthening credibility, confidence, and practical impact. The program is ideal for HRBPs operating in international, fast-changing contexts where expectations from the business continue to rise.
The HRBP Effectiveness Program is a 6-month, business-anchored coaching journey designed to materially increase the impact, credibility, and influence of experienced HR Business Partners operating in complex, international organizations.
Unlike traditional HRBP training, this program is not a group or cohort based online or classroom-led. It is grounded in real business challenges, senior stakeholder dynamics, and strategic decision-making — enabling HRBPs to operate with greater commercial judgment, confidence, and influence where it matters most.
Across industries, many HR Business Partners face a familiar tension.
They are trusted advisors on people matters — yet not always seen as true business partners.
Involved — but not consistently influential. Busy — yet under-recognized where strategic decisions are made. As organizations become more matrixed, global, and fast-moving, HRBPs are increasingly expected to:
Many HRBPs are capable — but underprepared for the business-facing complexity of the role.
The purpose of the HRBP Effectiveness Program is to strengthen the effectiveness and real-world impact of individual HR Business Partners by helping them operate confidently at the intersection of business, leadership, and organization.
The program focuses on:
Each participant works on a real, business-critical initiative during the program — ensuring learning is applied where it creates visible value for the organization.
The program is designed for experienced HR professionals operating in demanding environments, including:
Typical contexts include international or matrixed organizations, senior stakeholder environments, and organizations undergoing significant change or transformation.
This is not a generic HRBP capability program.
The HRBP Effectiveness Program is:
The methodology, structure, and coaching approach are intentionally selective and are shared in detail through the full program brochure.
By the end of the program, HRBPs typically:
For organizations, this translates into stronger HRBP contribution, better people decisions, and greater alignment between business strategy and organization outcomes.
Interested in learning more about the program structure, coaching methodology, timeline, and examples of business-anchored initiatives?
InterimXpert works through flexible engagement models designed to match the nature, pace, and complexity of each situation. Whether you need targeted advisory input, short-term senior capacity, or an ongoing strategic partnership, engagement is shaped around your context and priorities.
Targeted senior input for critical decisions, diagnostics, or moments requiring clarity and judgment.
✔ Covers: hourly, ad-hoc, decision support, sounding board
✔ Perfect for first-time conversations
Senior HR leadership capacity during periods of transition, transformation, or leadership gap, typically few days a month.
✔ Covers: fractional CHRO, interim-style leadership, deeper involvement
✔ Strong for PE-backed or transformation-heavy contexts
Defined support on a retained basis for complex initiatives such as M&A, GBS build-outs, or organization redesign.
✔ Covers: monthly retainers, ongoing partnership, continuity
✔ This is generally my default / anchor model
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Prakash Muniyal is a seasoned global HR leader and trusted advisor to senior executives navigating complex organizational change.
With over two decades of experience across multiple industries and geographies, he brings a pragmatic, business-anchored perspective to leadership, people, and transformation challenges.
Having lived and worked across India, Hong Kong, the UK, and Switzerland, Prakash has partnered closely with C-suite and senior leadership teams to shape and execute HR and organizational strategies that enable transformation, improve performance, and create sustainable enterprise value. His work sits at the intersection of strategy, organization design, and leadership effectiveness—where business outcomes are most directly influenced.
During his corporate career, Prakash held senior global HR leadership roles within multinational organizations across industrial technology, manufacturing, and consumer sectors. He has led and advised on complex initiatives including M&A HR due diligence and post-merger integration, GBS and GCC build-outs, manufacturing footprint optimization, large-scale restructuring, and enterprise-wide organization design and workforce transformation.
Today, Prakash operates as a strategic advisor, thought partner, and coach to senior leaders through InterimXpert with focus on transformation advisory, while also being associated with Mercuri Urval (MU), leading Global Leadership Advisory and Executive Search firm as a Principal. Through MU, he partners with clients on their leadership selection and development needs thereby leveraging MU Selection Science and solid network of 500+ MU experts based in 60+ countries.
He is known for his ability to combine strategic clarity with practical execution insight—helping leaders make confident decisions, navigate ambiguity, and strengthen organizational capability without creating dependency.
A Fellow of the CIPD (UK) and a member of the Swiss Indian Chamber of Commerce, Prakash is recognized for his results-oriented approach, strong stakeholder judgment, and effectiveness in complex, matrixed, and international environments. He is based in Zurich and works with clients across Europe and globally.
We would love to explore how InterimXpert can support your next leadership, HR, or organizational transformation initiative. Whether you need fractional CHRO services, interim HR leadership, or assistance with HR project management, including Mergers and Acquisition HR Due Diligence, reach out today.
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